- Provides a comprehensive look at typically occurring skin diseases found in travelers
- Features a broad mix of infectious diseases from bacterial to viral to fungal infection
- Includes skins diseases due to physical injury and exposure to contaminated foods as well
One of the most frequent medical complaints among travelers is dermatologically related.
As many as one in ten people are affected during travel itself with others not experiencing symptoms until well after they have returned from their trip. This book provides comprehensive information on infectious diseases; bacterial, viral, and fungal as well as skin diseases due to physical injuries and or exposure to contaminated foods. It compiles common dermatoses in one place to provide an easy-to-read tool for diagnosis and advice on further investigation and treatment of the skin disease.
Featuring contributions from experts around the world, this book covers a wide variety of skin diseases. Where most literature focuses on the various skin issues from traveling to tropical locations, this title is inclusive of dermatoses found in other locales. Chapters also includes tables and figures to illustrate each disease.
Skin Disease in Travelers is a must-have resource for for dermatologists, dermatology residents and medical students, and general practitioners.
Table of Contents- Influence of the New Environment on the Skin
- Impetigo
- Ecthyma
- Boils or Furunculosis
- Cellulitis and Erysipelas
- Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika
- Coronavirus
- Pityriasis Versicolor
- Dermatophyte Infections
- Tinea Nigra
- Mycetoma
- Chromoblastomycosis
- Sporotrichosis
- Blastomycosis
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Histoplasmosis
- Talaromycosis Caused by Talaromyces marneffei
- Insect Bites
- Tick-Borne Infections
- Spiders and Scorpions
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans
- African–Asian–European Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
- New World Leishmaniasis
- Myiasis
- Human Gnathostomiasis
- Scabies in Travellers
- Tungiasis
- Onchocerciasis
- Cold Injuries
- Sunburn
- Aquatic Dermatoses
- Schistosomiasis
- Insect Repellents
- Sun Protection
- Bed Bugs
- Skin Diseases in Refugees
